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A WORD WITH THE WOMEN

(By Elia W Peattie)

Mrs Henry D Cram of Boston had arranged to furnish the Paris exposition of 1900 with seventy-five derricks, to be used in the erection of the buildings, which are to be of stone Mrs Cram will personally supervise the pincing of her derricks

Stained glass portraits are becoming one of the luxuries of the last of the century They have been made popular in the est by Miss Mary Tillinghast of New York She is a decorator of much success, one of her most marked achievements having been the decoration of the music room at the Corcoran house at Washington The decoration of two reception rooms in the Washington mansion belonging to Mr James Stokes, is her latest work

Mrs Mary Lowe Dickinson, who had just been elected president of the national council of women at the Washington convention, is a writer of marked ability, but is, perhaps more widely known in the educational field She has thousands of friends throughout the United States "who recognize the quaility and extent of what she has accomplished in this direction She was born Massachusetts, but after her marriage resided for some years abraod, and is now a resident of the city of New York An early experience in life as a teacher led her to realize the need for a more practical education for girls and women, and she has sought to teach better systems of training Her latest work of imprtance was in Devener, Colo where she held a fill professionship in English literature Such as estimate was plaved on the value of her services not only as an instructor, but as a social and moral influence, the chair was one of the first to be fully endowed, and when illhealt obliged her to resign this position the chair was named for her, ad she was made emeritys professor and hold s now it lectureship in English literature. She has been secreatry of the woman's branch of the American Bible society national superintendent of the so-called department for higher education in the Woman's Chirstian Temperance inion and president of the Woman's National Indian association She conducted fro six years a magazine devoted to the care of invalids, and held an associate editorship with Foward Everett Hale in his Magazine of Philanthropy She is now preisent of the order of Kings Daughters and editor of its magaizne. Among the Thorns" :The Amber Star' and :One Little Life," novels, and in poetry, " The Dividne Chirst' and 'Eater Poems"

When, in the name of all that is honest, will the women stop wraing artificial bunches of violets? These obnoxious little frauds-the artificial violets not the women-lie in the windows of the shops by the thousand They are stuck on capes, coats and jackets, one meets them at every turn They decelve no one, are too cheap to be recommended for their valye, and too palpably false to be desired for their beauty Some of them seek with a perfume which is supposed to delude the unsophisicated observer that they are indeed the weet things they counterfeit, but which is not more like the illusive, delicate nature perfume that the odorous confudion of barbers pomade is like a feld of early flowers The artificial violet is a vulgar thing and mars a coustume which it is meant ot decorate